Digimat-FE

Digitalise materials to accelerate their development based on a deeper understanding

Digimat-FE

Gain in-depth insights of the microscopic behaviour with multiscale Finite Element (FE) analysis

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Digimat-FE generates realistic microstructures or reads microstructures from CT-scans to perform multiscale finite element analysis, providing an in-depth-view into composites.


Deep dive into the Digital Materials Laboratory: it’s all about multiscale analysis

Digimat-FE aims at advancing our understanding of the material behaviours to unlock the potential for innovation. From design to post-processing, the end-to-end solution streamlines every step to generate a detailed microstructure, perform accurate finite analysis (powered by Finite Element (FE) and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) solvers) and gain in-depth insights into the microscopic mechanisms that affect the composite response. 

It allows you to create 2D and 3D models of a range of microstructures, from reinforced plastics and unidirectional composites to metals, ceramics and foams, that can be solved with a suite of different FEA interfaces and solver technologies for the most effective results. Key analysis tools include local field visualisation, probabilistic distributions and mean homogenised properties.

Value & Benefits: 

  • Optimise material properties to match specific industry requirements
  • Combine any types of resin and reinforcement to explore new composite formulations
  • Gain an in-depth view and understanding of the composites behaviours
  • Analyse effect of defects, damage, fibre/matrix debonding, etc.
  • Perform sensitivity analysis to better understand the material behaviour and optimize the microstructure.

Key features:

  • Easy generation of realistic microstructures for a wide range of materials
    • 2D or 3D
    • generic (matrix, inclusion, void, continuous fibre, strand, from external CAD)
    • fabric (interlock, orthogonal, braided, non-crimp, DFCA, with different weave patterns)
    • lattice (aligned, sparse, double dense sparse, hexagonal, custom infills)
    • foam (open or closed cells, random, Kelvin, or custom structures)
    • metals (polycrystals, cemented metals)
    • geometric microstructures from STL files
    • image microstructures from CT-scans
  • Internal meshing and solvers (including Fast Fourier Transform solver)
    • conforming mesh (tetra)
    • non-conforming mesh (voxel)
    • mesh cutting (tetra)
    • conforming extruded mesh (tetra)
    • grid points
    • Finite Element (FE) solver
    • Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) solver
    • external solvers
    • multiple CPUs and GPU technology
  • Comprehensive post-processing of results
    • average field results
    • distribution over each phase and over the representative volume element (RVE)
    • 3D plots of the field results